by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 2, 2023 |
The Explore city Bangalore Shares the details of the Bengali food Festival, at La Utsav restaurant in Grand Mercure Bengaluru Gopalan Mall, Bangalore.
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 2, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
West Bengal, particularly Kolkata, is dotted with mishti’r dokan (sweet shops). Walk 2 steps and you will find one. Every lane and by-lane of the city has a sweet shop, each boasting of its speciality. Some make the best roshogolla, some darbesh, sondesh and so...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 27, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
I say superstar or should it be the show-stopper? A typical bijoya platter would consist of kucho nimki, narkel naru, some sondesh and of course ghugni. But then, every once in a while, the humble ghugni is amped up with mutton keema and it becomes mangsher ghugni....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Aug 29, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
This is the season for Taal, also known as a sugar palm. Not many communities in our country consume this or even know about it. It’s a delicacy in Bengal during late monsoon and just before Janmashtami. And a whole lot of food is made using this unique fruit....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Aug 11, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
It was a balmy summer day. The kids had just returned from school. It was one of those days when all you wanted to do was get lazy, switch on the ac and binge on OTT. Once Brishti is back home, she spends half an hour trying to tell us all about her school. Between...